The IAU 24 Hour World Championship is an international 24-hour run competition organised by the International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU).[1] Since 2015, the World Championship has alternated annually with the IAU 100 km World Championships.[2]

Preceded in 2001 by the IAU World 24 Hours Track Championships, as a track running event, this competition became the IAU World 24 Hours Challenge in 2003.[3] The road running event was later upgraded to World Championships status after 2006. It is one of the IAU's four main world championship events (alongside the 100 km World Championships, 50 km World Championships, and Trail World Championships) and is the only one with a limited time format, rather than a distance-based one.[4]

The competition has often incorporated the IAU 24 Hour European Championships – a continental event which pre-dates the global competition, having first been held in 1992.[3] The annual schedule has twice been broken: first in 2011, with Brugg, Switzerland failing to proceed as host,[5] and again in 2014, with the agreed host (Plzeň, Czech Republic) being unable to hold the eleventh edition of the competition.[6] The event has mainly been held in Europe: in 2006, Taipei became the first Asian city to hold the races and Drummondville, Quebec followed as the first North American host in 2007.[5]

New Championship records were set at the 2019 Championship, including 278.972 kilometres by Aleksandr Sorokin from Lithuania and 270.119 kilometres by Camille Herron[7] from the United States.

Editions

  Edition in gold was held as the IAU World 24 Hours Track Championships
Ed. Year City Country Dates No. of
nations		 No. of
athletes
— 2001 San Giovanni Lupatoto[3] Italy 22–23 September[5]
1st 2003 Uden[3] Netherlands 11–12 October[5]
2nd 2004 Brno[3] Czech Republic 23–24 October[5]
3rd 2005 Wörschach[3] Austria 16–17 July[5]
4th 2006 Taipei[3] Republic of China 25–26 February[8]
5th 2007 Drummondville, Quebec Canada 28–29 July[9]
6th 2008 Seoul South Korea 18–19 October[10]
7th 2009 Bergamo Italy 2–3 May[11]
8th 2010 Brive-la-Gaillarde France 13–14 May[12]
— 2011 Cancelled[13]
9th 2012 Katowice Poland 8–9 September[14][15]
10th 2013 Steenbergen Netherlands 11–12 May[16] 22 261
— 2014 Cancelled[13]
11th 2015 Turin Italy 11–12 April[17][18] 40 302
12th 2017 Belfast United Kingdom 1–2 July[19]
13th 2019 Albi France 26–27 October[20]
— 2021 Cancelled[21]
14th 2023 Taipei Taiwan 1–2 December[22]
15th 2025 Albi France 25–26 October[23]

Medallists

Men's individual

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2001  Yiannis Kouros (GRE)275.828  Lubomír Hrmo (SVK)270.337  Alain Prual (FRA)259.778
2003  Paul Beckers (BEL)270.087  Ryōichi Sekiya (JPN)267.223  Étienne Van Acker (BEL)264.967
2004  Ryōichi Sekiya (JPN)269.085  Lubomír Hrmo (SVK)259.064  Mohamed Magroun (FRA)257.881
2005  Anatoliy Kruglikov (RUS)268.065  Ewald Eder (AUT)263.810  Jens Lukas (GER)256.368
2006  Ryōichi Sekiya (JPN)272.936  Mohamed Magroun (FRA)248.563  Vladimir Bychkov (RUS)246.098
2007  Ryōichi Sekiya (JPN)263.562  Mohamed Magroun (FRA)257.018  Masayuki Otaki (JPN)253.814
2008  Ryōichi Sekiya (JPN)273.366  Fabian Hoblea (FRA)267.174  Yuji Sakai (JPN)264.389
2009  Henrik Olsson (SWE)257.042  Ralf Weiss (GER)244.492  Yuji Sakai (JPN)242.713
2010  Shingo Inoue (JPN)273.708  Scott Jurek (USA)266.577  Ivan Cudin (ITA)263.841
2012  Michael Morton (USA)277.543 CR  Florian Reus (GER)261.718  Ludovic Dilmi (FRA)257.819
2013  Jon Olsen (USA)269.675  John Dennis (USA)262.734  Florian Reus (GER)259.939
2015  Florian Reus (GER)263.899  Paweł Szynal (POL)261.181  Robbie Britton (GBR)261.140
2017  Yoshihiko Ishikawa (JPN)270.870  Sebastian Białobrzeski (POL)267.187  Johan Steene (SWE)266.515
2019  Aleksandr Sorokin (LTU)278.972 CR  Tamás Bódis (HUN)276.222  Olivier Leblond (USA)275.485
2023  Aleksandr Sorokin (LTU)301.790  Fotios Zisimopoulos (GRE)292.254  Andrii Tkachuk (UKR)284.540
2025

Men's team

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2003  Belgium791.901 CR  Russia739.569  Japan729.956
2004  France745.725  Japan740.396  Russia704.876
2005  Japan734.498  Russia731.299  Italy725.897
2006  Japan755.569  France724.412  Italy709.677
2007  Japan761.842  France742.206  Germany673.092
2008  Japan785.432  France773.635  Russia723.287
2009  Japan706.984  Russia693.445  Germany689.111
2010  Japan778.678  Italy758.932  United States757.468
2012  Germany759.457  France756.710  United States754.786
2013  United States780.552  Japan752.567  Germany752.007
2015  United Kingdom770.777  Australia752.665  Germany745.075
2017  Japan783.159  Poland763.630  United States755.458
2019  United States799.754 CR  Hungary782.241  France779.076
2023  Lithuania813.368  Poland787.964  United Kingdom772.127
2025

Women's individual

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2001  Edit Bérces (HUN)235.029  Irina Reutovich (RUS)226.781  Irina Koval (RUS)222.445
2003  Irina Reutovich (RUS)237.052  Galina Yeremina (RUS)232.050  Joëlle Semur (FRA)227.279
2004  Sumie Inagaki (JPN)237.154  Galina Yeremina (RUS)235.012  Stephanie Ehret (USA)225.573
2005  Lyudmila Kalinina (RUS)242.228  Galina Yeremina (RUS)239.874  Sumie Inagaki (JPN)234.803
2006  Sumie Inagaki (JPN)237.144  Lyudmila Kalinina (RUS)231.356  Kimie Noto (JPN)229.146
2007  Lyudmila Kalinina (RUS)236.848  Brigitte Bec (FRA)233.137  Galina Yeremina (RUS)230.288
2008  Anne-Marie Vernet (FRA)239.685  Anne-Cécile Fontaine (FRA)239.252  Brigitte Bec (FRA)229.818
2009  Anne-Cécile Fontaine (FRA)243.644  Brigitte Bec (FRA)234.977  Monica Casiraghi (ITA)223.848
2010  Anne-Cécile Fontaine (FRA)239.797  Monica Casiraghi (ITA)231.390  Julia Alter (GER)230.258
2012  Michaela Dimitriadu (CZE)244.232  Connie Gardner (USA)240.385  Emily Gelder (GBR)238.875
2013  Mami Kudo (JPN)252.205  Sabrina Little (USA)244.669  Suzanna Bon (USA)236.228
2015[24]  Katalin Nagy (USA)244.495  Traci Falbo (USA)239.740  Maria Jansson (SWE)238.964
2017  Patrycja Bereznowska (POL)259.991 CR WR  Aleksandra Niwińska (POL)251.078  Katalin Nagy (USA)248.970
2019  Camille Herron (USA)270.116 CR WR  Nele Alder-Baerens (GER)254.288 NR  Patrycja Bereznowska (POL)247.723
2023  Miho Nakata (JPN)270.363 WR  Olena Shevchenko (UKR)254.463  Patrycja Bereznowska (POL)249.541
2025

Women's team

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2003  Russia684.858  France649.303  Japan628.440
2004  Russia661.558  Japan657.610  United States635.932
2005  Russia709.573  Japan654.385  United States604.514
2006  Russia671.477  Japan654.555  France596.172
2007  Russia671.329  Japan641.207  France614.488
2008  France708.755  Japan650.257  Germany629.868
2009  France684.078  United States636.159  Italy626.386
2010  France685.800  Italy658.112  Australia654.863
2012  United States694.620  France666.503  Great Britain666.461
2013  United States710.599  Japan705.582  France670.698
2015  United States720.046  Sweden684.981  Poland678.468
2017  United States740.856 CR  Poland740.234  Germany689.622
2019  United States746.132 CR  Poland721.124  Germany696.846
2023  Poland726.552  Japan702.911  Czech Republic697.275
2025

References

  1. ↑ IAU 24H World Championship. International Association of Ultrarunners. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  2. ↑ IAU Championships. International Association of Ultrarunners. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 IAU World 24 Hours Challenge. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  4. ↑ IAU Championships. International Association of Ultrarunners. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Michiels, Paul & Milroy, Andy (2013-05-07). IAU 24 Hour Championships. Association of Road Running Statisticians. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  6. ↑ 2014 World 24-Hour Run Championships. USATF. Retrieved on 2015-03-21.
  7. ↑ "2019 IAU 24 H World Championship – Official Results". International Association of Ultrarunners. 29 October 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  8. ↑ 2006 IAU 24 Hour World Challenge. USATF. Retrieved on 2015-03-21.
  9. ↑ Mountain/Ultra/Trail 2007 Annual Report. USATF (2007-10-08). Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  10. ↑ RECAP: IAU RACES 2008 . International Association of Ultrarunners. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  11. ↑ Olsson and Fontaine take IAU 24hr World Challenge titles in Bergamo. IAAF (2009-05-05). Retrieved on 2015-03-21.
  12. ↑ Inoue and Fontaine take 24 Hour IAU World Championship titles. IAAF (2010-05-19). Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  13. 1 2 International Ultrarunners Without a World Championship Race For The Second Time This Year. Ultra Running Magazine (2014-07-24). Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  14. ↑ Katowice to host IAU 24 Hour World champs this weekend. IAAF (2012-09-05). Retrieved on 2015-03-21.
  15. ↑ Morton and Dimitriadu take IAU World 24 Hour titles. IAAF (2012-09-11). Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  16. ↑ IAU - Olsen and Kudo take 24 Hour IAU World Championship titles. IAAF (2013-05-28). Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  17. ↑ 2015 IAU World 24 Hour Championships Selection Procedures. USATF. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  18. ↑ Pięć medali Polaków na MŚ i ME w biegu 24-godzinnym (in Polish). Maratony Polskie (2015-04-15). Retrieved 2015-04-16.
  19. ↑ "Belfast to host 24 Hour World Championships in 2017". Belfast City Council. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  20. ↑ "2019 IAU 24H World Championships was granted to Albi, France". iau-ultramarathon.org. Archived from the original on 3 September 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  21. ↑ Cancellations of 2021 IAU 24H and IAU 50 km World Championship. IAU (2021-06-25). Retrieved 2022-06-08.
  22. ↑ "2019 IAU 24H World Championships was granted to Albi, France". Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  23. ↑ "2025 IAU 24 Hour World Championship announcement". iau-ultramarathon.org. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  24. ↑ General Results, female iau-ultramarathon.org
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